i deleted facebook
 

lots of reasons why

most people that respond to what i post are from here

it's a very easy way to keep track of old friends, and that's cheap, when you get down to it. i think most of the time people make absolutely no effort to keep up with people anymore because after all they're getting a priority newsfeed about the most important events in their social circle every day, so if you don't pop up on facebook with a picture or a plug then you don't exist/aren't doing anything

i also feel like most of the time if you actually comment on something you see from a person you went to college with or something they think you are weird or creepy for doing so even though that's how i thought messageboards worked and lets be real facebook is basically a fancy message board with a user-controlled guest list

it's like everything is now boiled down to what you post on facebook like you're some kind of product that needs to be marketed at all times

also i love how everyone i know has tons of pictures of themselves with each other but i'm not in any of these photos

i just checked and facebook.com is still there

dammit it didn't work

i'll keep working at it

you and casey are assholes. just when i'm about to 70 friends you guys delete your fb. just one time think about someone else and not just yourself.

dicks.

The other day I tried to drunk chat my buddy in Argentina and he said "hey how are you". To which I replied "good, too much maricona". He said "uh, maricon is pussy and maconia is bud". I of course said both, but he never responded.

i just use friendster

so who here remembers myspace?

You didn't delete it, you just temporarily deactivated your visible profile!

see you in a few days

fat years we're currently still friends on facebook

there is a permanent delete option but you have to resist logging in for two weeks and that includes any site you had linked to your facebook

i did it once and then made it an entire month before i just made a new profile
i hate it

offline for one month now

eh

i mean you can actually communicate with people on it too. the telephone facilitated communication too, and people probably had similar complaints. same with email. i mean i get your point but i don't see a problem with having peripheral acquaintances that you don't talk to all the time but that you're able to keep up with just for the sake of curiosity or whatever.

and i kind of like it when people from high school that i haven't talked to for a long time like or comment on something of mine. it's a superficial connection, but it's still a connection of some kind. do these people actually think you're weird and creepy or is this just you assuming they do? i have the same feeling sometimes but i bet it's overblown.

i dunno, i just kinda like it.

oh and it's also a good way to find interesting articles and shit that people post that i wouldn't have found otherwise.

You'll be back

actually i already know i'm going to be foever alone that's why i deleted it but nice try to make me feel bad about not using a social media site

Facebook just seems like such a bad idea.

trots was correct in the sense that it has become a marketplace of competing adspace. right now its best feature is promotion. next time you watch tv check out how many times you get prompted to check out a facebook page while the commercials are on it's about every single one.

no way

i think one of the worst things about facebook is that it tricks me into thinking i'm not forever alone for a moment, as it were

that strip is annoying because my attitude is exactly the opposite, i know i won't be invited to any parties, shows, or contacted in any way but i'd rather have real friends than people that are looking to boost their friend count and the # of people that go to their house parties and third rate shows

it's just a bunch of stupid. i'm a hermit and i'm going to live in a cave.

how is this different in any significant way from companies telling you to go to their websites

because the product is you

I only use facebook to share shit and bitch and moan...its mostly all ab me. I don't really ever add friends, I deleted most people from high school because their "friend requests" was just a means to see how I have been living my life without ever really asking me. I don't add people that I currently work with and I periodically get rid of the people who never interact with me.

im p sure over half my friend count is Netphorian in ancestry.

...when a company selling a product directs you to their company's facebook page, the product is their product.

people's personal pages are basically advertisements of themselves but i don't get what is so sinister about companies setting up their own pages and directing you to them via tv ads.

i don't get why you're defending a website that's trying to monopolize internet communication and dramatically transform human interaction

is there anything positive about facebook?

it's significantly different because traditionally companies/businesses have to pay someone money to post or print or broadcast advertisements.

right now it's free adspace and it's getting taken advantage of because of, oh i don't know how high to aim, human nature?

it simplifies communication and staying in touch. it makes it easy to reach people and share things you think are interesting. none of these is inherently bad. the only inherent problems are privacy issues. but you can still have some control over it.

we could all forego phone conversations and email and then all of our communication would be so much more meaningful and we'd know who really gave a shit or whatever... but is that really necessary?

there are other ways of knowing who matters and who counts in your life. if you can't separate those people out because of facebook, then there is probably a different problem i think. meaningful communication can coexist with half-assed facebook interactions.

i mean seriously why would anyone want to check out the kraft macaroni and cheese page on facebook for anything other than a quick laff

free adspace that no one has to visit if they don't choose to. are you talking more about stuff that pops up in your feed like "Bob Johnsons likes KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE" or whatever? because i don't see why it's a company's fault that someone in your list of friends chooses to do their advertising for them.

holy shit dude

how did we both pick the same random product

what the fuck

i agree with all of this as well. the problem is not the website. from my experience, there are only two kinds of facebook users - those who use it everyday without even thinking about it and those who have become frustrated with it in some way and have found it easier to walk away completely from than contending with it.

nice vibes there haha. see we're usually on the same page about things.

i guess my main point is that, when following the money, one thing every product has in common now is an extra little blurb that says "check us out on facebook"

that's all it takes

i just think it's superflous because most people will just assume companies have their own facebook pages

but i don't ever see any of those pages because i don't make an effort to. if paid ads start showing up in my feed, then that will annoy the shit out of me. but until then, i don't really see what's so bad about the pages existing for people who want to visit them.

it's an easy way to find out when like... a bar is having something on special on a particular night and you wouldn't have visited the website but find out about something you are interested in because it shows up on your feed because you subscribed to it for that very reason.

for example

it's not all terrible and awful.

i totally understand what you're saying but the odds of that happening are not worth it to me. that bar will still be sending advertisements multiple times a day, 7 days a week, etc.

also paid ads or unpaid ads its still advertising

i think that saying that telephone and email correspondence is the same as facebook is entirely false

facebook lulls you into an inactive state of friendship that requires little to no effort on anyone's part. what i mean by that is that facebook allows you to "keep up" with "old friends" without you making any sort of effort beyond friending them on facebook. if you were to call the person or write them an e-mail then you'd actually be making an effort to be their friend.